Hello Rusty. Welcome on board. Could you tell us about the work of the Boom Carriers? Did the Boom Carriers work along with the Boom Defense Vessels or were they quite different roles? Thought you might like to see these pics. Who knows, may be somebody among these men ended up in Boom Carriers? Some pics from HMS Burgonet in the Med.
Heklo RJL, Thank U 4 THE WELCOME. B/D Carriers where 8 ex M N Ships , the BAR CLASS they did the hard bit , the photos of the lads of the Burgonet looks if they had been coaling ship,did her time far east ,she was one of 12 Net class, my first ship was h m s Laomedon ex Blue funnel a/Holt lunched 1912,ww 1 she beat off a U boat in the med with her stern 4in ,ww2 was torpedoed in the bow. going on a bit i have photos in board and one painting towing a dutch sub, time is o4.22 must have some kip , IF U went me 2 tell U more //? i get my young pal put it down hes quick on the key bord. Regards rusty
h m s ROOK was a collection of huts in Rosyth dock yard ,Kings road school was the barracks ,boom carriers carried boys kege anger's ect,also they landed army lads had Gurkes lovely chaps have photos of them on board,good boxers ,i know ?, h m s Kirriemoor came back frome the far east,i think 4 D=Day, may be some one can confirm this ?,h m s Devon city and h m s Ethiopian where still with the, far east fleet,in 45 by this time h m s Laomedon was back in home waters , i than joined H M S Baritone, rusty7
IF U went me 2 tell U more //? i get my young pal put it down hes quick on the key bord. Hi Rusty, Thanks for the info. If your pal could, that would be really brilliant.
Hello RJL , Wee bit more info 2 think we had more Vessels in B-D than the RN has 2 day??? how meny have they, i would like 2 know?. B-D had aux net layers, gate vessels, net class, there was the COM class, we looking 4 a draft 2 them , U S A built oil burners no hard layers on them ( no neaters ) never seen one , may be some one on this site can help re photos Ect,
H I RJL, Can U help me Put something up on this thread? its about h m s Barrymore,some of the jobs they did apart frome BD work,( article ID 1079039, location Cap of Good Hope ) BBC PEPLES WAR.. its the same with photos,no can do, would appreciate any suggest cant help being thick
Rusty. Here is the link to the HMS Barrymore story. BBC - WW2 People's War - HMS Barrymore As for photos. 1. You need to click on the "Go Advanced" tab. This is near the reply box. 2. On the top row, highlight the little paperclip shaped icon and it will say "Attachments". 3. Click on this "paperclip" icon 4. Manage attachments box. Browse to the location of the picture you want to show and click on "Upload". 5. When done, Send your message. This probably sounds a bit complicated but the procedure sounds worse than it is. It is pretty simple once you've done it. Give it a go a couple of times.
Hi RJL Thank you 4 the above post ,the photos are 2 big , not in files,///, i can only send them on e mail,, only photos in board ,not of much of interest, there is another ship mate now on this site ,a Vet of arctic convoys ,he is brill with PCs , going to give it a rest,may b lurk / Regards rusty 7
Hi RJL BACK on pc prob,been on a Dutch navy site,trying 2 trace a Dutch sub,that we had in tow,no luck yet,will try 2 get photos up next week,Thank U 4 THE advice Re photos, Regards rusty7
Rusty, I do not know if this is the website you mentioned, but there is information regarding the towing of a Dutch Submarine during WW2. Dutch Submarines : The Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy It looks to be a good website with lots of information. The R/C model submarines are really wonderful. Regards Tom
Hi Cally It's Rusty 7, i've got a picture of a painting of a Boom carrier - Laomedon. i would like to post it on the site could you let me know how you managed to put your pictures up there please. Also have you got any photos of the Boom carriers, there is 8 in total. in Boom defence we had more ships then than they have got today? i have got the names of the 8 if you want them. regards Rusty Sorry Rusty - I have only just seen this as I have been away for a week or so. If you look at your PMs [private messages] you will see one from me!
Rusty, Sometimes threads dry up due to lack of further material. Why not start a new one, I am sure you have plenty of themes to choose from. Regards Tom
Rusty, Sometimes threads dry up due to lack of further material. Why not start a new one, I am sure you have plenty of themes to choose from. Regards Tom Well, if the Boom Defence thread is about to dry up, maybe I've just joined this forum in time! My dad served in the boom-defence service in WWII. I have always known this, but only recently got round to enquiring about his naval service. I was curious to know the names of the ship(s) he served in. The letter from the Director of Naval Personnel Office in Portsmouth arrived today. So now I know! I was brought up in a village in east Fife, where my father and his forebears had been fishermen for generations, and he joined the navy at Rosyth in July 1940. So he started on HMS Rooke, and I was pleased to see that name in earlier posts on this thread. Was it a ship or a shore establishment? Later he was briefly on HMS Orlando, then he spent about four years on HMS Skirmisher. I think he must have been on her when he was wounded in 1944 in a Luftwaffe raid on Dover. He spent about a year in hospital, then worked at the naval dockyard in Rosyth, in west Fife, which was a major employer of Fife men. As he had his mate's ticket from the fishing, he spent only weeks as an O.S. then A.B. before being made a petty officer, the rank he remained in for the rest of the war. I had lots of other relatives in the RN, Marines and Wrens, but I think that's enough for a first post! Harry
h m s ROOK was a collection of huts in Rosyth dock yard ,Kings road school was the barracks ,boom carriers carried boys kege anger's ect,also they landed army lads had Gurkes lovely chaps have photos of them on board,good boxers ,i know ?, h m s Kirriemoor came back frome the far east,i think 4 D=Day, may be some one can confirm this ?,h m s Devon city and h m s Ethiopian where still with the, far east fleet,in 45 by this time h m s Laomedon was back in home waters , i than joined H M S Baritone,. rusty7 Hello Harry, Just seen your post,may Be U missed the above post. interesting about your family,had to be good seamen in boom defence and in the R N P S, A Lot of Ex fisher men made up the ships crews. The certificate of Service will list the ships served on,would be good to see ships served on, i will keep a look out 4 your posts' Regards rusty7
I found this rather good website with photos of Boom Defence ships. Hope it comes in useful for our Boom Defence experts. Ship Index Regards Tom
Hello Harry, Just seen your post,may Be U missed the above post. interesting about your family,had to be good seamen in boom defence and in the R N P S, A Lot of Ex fisher men made up the ships crews. The certificate of Service will list the ships served on,would be good to see ships served on, i will keep a look out 4 your posts' Regards rusty7 I've just caught your post, thanks very much for that. I had begun to suspect that HMS Rooke wasn't quite what "she" seemed! A lot of our fishermen joined up in both world wars and were mostly on boom-defence or minesweeping duties. The East Fife steam-drifters were pressed into naval service and the whole crew overnight became RNR. I think there's a photo in the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther of a drifter crew before - in their fishermen's gear - and after - in their brand-new uniforms! The skippers were given a commission at the lower end of the officer scale. They offered to defer my dad's entry to the RN to give him time to convert his mate's ticket to a skipper's ticket, then he would have received a commission and been sent off to a war zone. My mum put her foot down - they had two little kids, my big sisters, born in 1937 and 1939 respectively - and she was worried they would never grow up with a dad. So he went in with his mate's ticket, was made a petty officer and remained in that rank throughout the war. My mum's younger brother was a baker with a yen for the sea, so come WWII he was straight into the Royal Marines. He served in the Med., where his ship was strafed by Italian dive-bombers, he sailed on the Arctic convoys to Murmansk, and he was on the battleship "Royal Sovereign" when she was only the second allied warship to visit Hiroshima after the A-bomb. So he got his fill of adventure in the end. And after all that excitement, my uncle came out of the war without a scratch, whereas my dad in home waters was nearly blown to bits by the Luftwaffe in Dover and spent a year in hospital. Harry
See Paul Lund and Harry Ludlam's Trawlers Go To War about the RN Patrol Service; it has quite a bit on the Patrol Service' role in boom defence and other coastal and inshore duties. Hi Cally It's Rusty 7, i've got a picture of a painting of a Boom carrier - Laomedon. i would like to post it on the site could you let me know how you managed to put your pictures up there please. Also have you got any photos of the Boom carriers, there is 8 in total. in Boom defence we had more ships then than they have got today? i have got the names of the 8 if you want them. regards Rusty Hi Rusty My Grandfather served on HMS Kirriemoor a boom carrier can you confirm this was one of the official ones. glad you found this site, my g/father was awarded the 39-45 star, burma star, france and germany star and war medal Regards James
rusty what exactly did the bar class boom vessels do during the war, whan i was on the bbc peoples war team i spoke with someone who was on destroyers and he told me he wouldn't wanted to have swapped places with the boom defence lads as they were sitting ducks, any info greatly apppreciated James
